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logo and Erin O’Brien took charge of editing the national reports as well as draft versions of the final report. World Bank staff who contributed to the overall RuralStruc program included Bruno Losch (TTL), Patrick Labaste and Michael Morris (successive TTLs of the RuralStruc multidonor trust fund), Eric Thomas White, Malick Antoine, Angela Lisulo, Benjamin Billard, James Keough, Beatriz Prieto-Oramas, and Ingrid Mollard. Hawanty Page and Germaine Mafougong-Ethy were in charge of the program’s administrative support. Jeff Lecksell and Bruno Bonansea prepared the maps based on information provided by the RuralStruc national teams. The program benefited from the guidance of its Advisory Committee, chaired by C. Peter Timmer (Cabot Professor of Development Studies, emeritus, Harvard University) and including Kirsten Albrechtsen de Appendini (Colegio de México), Pierre-Marie Bosc (CIRAD), Peter Gibbon (Danish Institute for International Studies), Catherine Laurent (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Jean-Luc Maurer (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement), Sandra Polaski (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Marc Raffinot (Université Paris–Dauphine), and Sibiri Jean Zoundi (Sahel and West Africa Club, OECD). The program also benefited from careful follow-up by a Steering Committee consisting of RuralStruc’s contributing donors (Agence Française de Développement, French Ministries of Foreign and European Affairs, and of Agriculture and Fisheries, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and World Bank), chaired successively by Florence Lasbennes (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs) and Marie-Cécile Thirion (Agence Française de Développement).
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